The HUM 592 research group, ‘Reception, Modes and Genres of English Language Literature’, has been running continuously for almost thirty years since its creation in 1998. Born within the Department of English and German Philology, the group was consolidated in close collaboration with the University Institute for Women's and Gender Studies, maintaining from its origins a firm commitment to research in English-language literature from a feminist and gender perspective. Its institutional stability, international networks and extensive experience in collective projects attest to its research maturity and relevance in the academic landscape.
Over the decades, HUM 592 has expanded and enriched its lines of work, incorporating transdisciplinary approaches that address modes of representation, cultural reception, intermediality, and the relationships between literature, audiovisual media, and digital screens, always from a gender perspective. This growth has made it possible to address contemporary issues related to the transnational circulation of literary and cultural discourses, feminist cultural studies, and media transformations that affect the production, distribution, and reception of English-language narratives.
Currently, the group actively participates in national and European projects focused on intermediality, transnational and transmedial literature, digital culture, and critical pedagogies. Far from being a purely historical group, HUM 592 maintains a lively and evolving research dynamic, focused on its young researchers, which makes it an ideal environment for emerging lines of research such as gender studies applied to digital environments, new narratives related to English-language literature and cultural studies, and new voices within interdisciplinary gender studies, thus reinforcing its role as a benchmark in English-language gender studies and its impact on international academic visibility.